In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: don't allow datadir only In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
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Fri, 09 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ovl: don't allow datadir only In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
Title ovl: don't allow datadir only
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2025-05-09T06:43:54.250Z

Updated: 2025-05-09T06:43:54.250Z

Reserved: 2025-04-16T04:51:23.958Z

Link: CVE-2025-37863

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-05-09T07:16:07.317

Modified: 2025-05-09T07:16:07.317

Link: CVE-2025-37863

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